The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1887-01-06
The LION And THE COYO7ES -!
A PICTURE For The CONTEMPLATION OE
AMERICAN FREEMEN

great body of the American people are to
give expression to their admiration for
the grand character of the late Gen. John
A Logan, Ever since he first appeared
in public life, as the intimate friend OF
Stephen A. Douglass, down to the day OF
his death, there were about the man quail
tiles that commanded the admiration OF
all who knew him. or heard of him. His
first appearance upon the field in the late
war-he had been a private soldier in the
Mexican war-was when, as Member
of Congress, visiting the field of Bull
Run, he was seen with musket in his
hands doing picket duty, and afterward
caring for the wounded. Going west
shortly afterward, he organized Regi-
ment of volunteers, and on the second
day after receiving marching orders,
fought the Battle of Belmont Mo, where
he had the Regimental colors carried in
front, and rode beside them, leading his
Regiment. This was pretty much his
STYLE all the way through At Belmont
he had his equipments shattered, and his
horse wounded. At Fort DOnelson he
was struck with two spent balls, and
badly wounded by other shots, yet he re-
manned in his place, bleeding and fighting,
until Victory was assured. Around Vicks-
burg his services were simply superb, and
Gen. Grant permitted Logan's Division
to march into the fallen city at the head
of the great Army. 1t was at Jackson
Mississippi that he sent reply to Gen,
Grants dispatch, which, though not strict
ly elegant, was emphatic and hopeful.
Logan's Division charged across a mile
or so of open ground, with the Confeder-
ates pouring in deadly fire. Grant sent
to inquire how the fight was going, and
Logan replied: Tell Gen. Grant my di-
vision can't be whipped by all the Rebels
this side of hell We're going ahead, and
won't stop until we get orders" And
the Confenerates believed it and felt it,
and left.
All through his service he acted with
the same dashing, valor, and it was a
grand thing. for the Army that he was
present to step into McPherson's place at
Atlanta. Here and at Kenesaw, were
two bluders by Gen. Sherman, either of
which would have reduced an Eighth
Corporal to the Ranks for incompetency.
At Kenesaw, Thomas, Mcpherson and
Logan, solemnly protested against a use
less slaughter of men, but Sherman or
dered the assault made, and sacrificed
some of his best men, merely to demon
strate his lack of ability as General.
At Atlanta, Sherman insisted that H ood
was evacuating the city. So he was! But
| instead of running away from Sherman,
| he was coming at him, with massed forces.
Sherman ordered Mcpherson to pursue,
when he was really being pursued. The
gallant Mcpherson was slain, but brave,
dashing Logan was there, and the boys
knew him as we'll as they did their below
ed Mcpherson, and the fighting was as
magnificent as it was terrible.
Logan took leave of absence after the
fall of Atlanta, and came North, and was
returning when communications were in
terrupted and he could not reach his COM
mand in time to go on the March to the
Sea" While Thomas was preparing for
the Battle of Nashville, and Grant was
urging and ordering him to fight a bal tie
in which Grant himself would have been
utterly routed, Logan was ordered to
Nashville to relieve Thomas. Logan
knew that if any officer on earth could
whip Hood, Thomas could do it, and his
great, kind heart prompted him to travel
slowly toward Nashville, so that, instead
of seizing the laurels that would rightly
belong to Thomas, he permitted the lat
ter to carry out his plans, defeat and rout
Hoods Army, and silence criticism. What
other officer, think you in all our Armies,
would have done this? Such, however,
was the character of Logan.
When this great man, this brilliant SOL
dier, after years of faithful service in a
civil capacity, was stricken down from
of the South, intensified by the strain of
overwork, it was fair to presume that he
would have the sympathy and good wish
es of the entire country. Yet we must
say and we say it with a sense of the
shame such conduct attaches to the very
name of American citiZen-that there
were creatures fOund-only taCO of them,
out of fifty millions of people-one in
Washington, and one in Cincinnati, who
persistently, in a great daily newspaper
(great only in size abused, lied about, and
black guarded the stricken hero, day after
day, striving by this conduct to add to
the mental agony of the sufferer, and to
wiring with anguish the heart of his brave
patient little wife. Column after column
Of the most miserable, disgusting, con-
temptable lies, was telegraphed, day af-
ter day about Logan. Why about Logan
more than any other public man? Sim
ply because he had told the truth about a
man who desired the United States SEN
ate to expel Senator against whom not
the shadow of a case had been made.
! Now, that the great Logan is gone, and
they cannot injure him by their iendish
work, Murat Halstead has the amazing
effrontery TO have himself interviewed by
! his own correspondent in New York
J that is. himseIf-and calls the attention
of his readers to his belief that Logan
had faults that were conspicuous Al
so that the Republicans of Ohio have
differed seriously with him." A more
Infamous and disgusting untruth WAS
never uttered by q human being. There
never was any serious difference" be
tween Logan ard the OHIO Republicans.
The difference was with Il little gang of
newspaper scribblers, headed by the cop
perhead # the Commercial Gazette, who
had h0wled for the murder of Lincoln,
the removal Of Grant, and other wishes
dear to the Confederate heart. This abuse
of Logan while on his death-bed, this
| studiPd ATTEMPT to get even with IL wound
ed lion that had put them TO fight, should
certainly consign the coyotes engaged III
such work to the perpetual contempt of
every decent man in the United States.
Frank Martin, writing from Washing
ton iowa Decemher 9th Saws: "24 be-